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何故か件名欄に入力できる文字数が減っているので、書ききれませんでした。
ソースは【Arabnews】です。
Arabnews
http://www.arabnews.com/
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=48049&d=9&m=7&y=2004
John Edwards — Bulldog Grip on ‘Underdog’ Israeli Nation
Sarah Whalen, Arab News
John Edwards would have liked to be US President in 2004. But he’s an extraordinarily talented plaintiffs’ trial lawyer. If he can’t win, he’ll settle.
Being John Kerry’s vice president would be enough. For now.
Why should Muslims care?
Because Edwards voted for the Patriot Act, voted for giving President Bush authority to use military force in Iraq, and is obsessed with militarily defending Israel through war in the Middle East.
Plaintiffs’ lawyers defend underdogs to the death, and Edwards sees Israel, a nuclear-armed munitions factory, as the underdog. And Edwards will fight to the death for Israel.
And like all great trial lawyers, he doesn’t have to know a whole heck of a lot about any issues. He’s a bulldog. He just has to know what his goal is, get a good grip with his jaws, and not let go.
On the Middle East “situation,” Edwards avers there are “no easy answers here,” but in fact, that isn’t true. Edwards has an easy answer.
The US should be a “strong supporter of Israel.” No why, no because, no indication that he understands any of the issues. Just get that bulldog grip and not let go.
Edwards the bulldog is tenacious alright. But how smart is he?
On US Senate’s elite Intelligence Committee, Edwards comments on the 9/11 attacks often painfully belabored the obvious: “If we can predict where, when and how attacks will occur, we can stop them before they happen.” What? No “who?”
And during his nomination run, Edwards’ Middle East remarks turned decidedly odd. Edwards called for the United States to lead an “international effort” against Iraq at all costs, even if the UN Security Council was somehow “prevented” from supporting it. That “prevention” here would mean the exercise of voting rights of the actual Security Council Members does not seem to have even crossed Edwards’ mind.
And why should it? It takes every muscle just to hold that grip.
“Hussein’s got to be gone,” Edwards barked before the war, even though he acknowledged that Iraq had made no “direct provocation” against any state in over a decade.
“Osama Bin Laden is no criminal mastermind,” Edwards scoffed. Bin Laden is, rather, “a common thug who was able to thrive in an environment of political despotism, religious extremism, and economic instability.”
In Edwards’ bulldog eyes, Bin Laden is just a simple crook.
To Edwards, Israel is “our vital ally” to which Iraq under Saddam Hussein “pose[d] a mortal threat.”
But toppling Saddam was not enough for Edwards. His website announces: “Senator John Edwards believes that this is not the time to send mixed messages about the special relationship between America and Israel.”
When interviewer Tim Russert asked whether, as president, Edwards would urge Ariel Sharon “to stop building settlements on the West Bank,” Edwards responded: “I don’t think our responsibility is to make demands on a sovereign nation, particularly an old, deep, passionate ally like Israel.”
He also declared that Israel “made the right decision to reject” the UN’s proposal on Jenin. Edwards added that Israelis rightfully escalated violence against Palestinians because “I think that the very existence of Israel is being threatened.”
Why tell Israel “to stop the military incursion,” Edwards continued, “when we [the US] were attacked [9/11] we went half a world away to go after
the people who were responsible for it?”
In his October, 2002 speech to the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., Edwards twice pronounced things in the Middle East would change “when we’re [i.e., the US] engaged on the ground in Israel: “It’s also important for us to send a clear signal to the Arab world that we care about what’s happening in Israel, that we’re willing to have people on the ground over extended period of time to do what needs to be done to ease tension and hopefully ultimately result in peace.”
US troops “on the ground” in the Middle East for ‘Israel?’” Edwards’ admission that the Iraq war was all about Israel is an idea worth watching, as Edwards’ begins his odyssey to power.
(Sarah Whalen is an expert in Islamic law and taught law at Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans, Louisiana.)
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